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Definition and stakes

United States Treaty Series (1968)

“ Independently of the obligations which result from Article 2 of the General Convention of this day, [1] relative to the exchange of official documents and of scientific and literary publications, the respective Governments undertake to have transmitted to the legislative chambers of each contracting State, as fast as their publication, a copy of the Official Journal, as well as of the parliamentary Annals and Documents, which are given publicity. ”
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Portrait of Frederic Austin Ogg Frederic Austin Ogg,  The Governments of Europe

“ Administrative courts exist for the application of administrative law, and administrative law may be defined in brief as that body of legal principles by which are determined the status and liabilities of public officials, the rights and liabilities of private individuals in their dealings with the official representatives of the state, and the procedure by which these rights and liabilities may be enforced. ”
Source: Gutenberg

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